Days after NTV aired a story about Baringo Ghost School that were discovered with gates leading to bushes with no classroom, IEBC has come out to clear claims that Ruto got votes from one of the school.
Addressing the matter through their social media platforms, IEBC came out to address a viral photo that showed a huge ammount of votes allegedly got by Ruto in 2022 from one Ghost school in Baringo.
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In a photo that went viral on Friday, Kaptiony Girls High School is shown in the photo and being one of Ruto’s strongholds, showed Ruto had garnered a huge number of votes in the highly contested 2022 Elections.
However IEBC claims that the photo is misleading and Kaptiony Girls High School was not registered as a polling station. Instead, Kaptiony Primary School was the station that was altered to show the non existent ghost school.
“Our attention is drawn to inaccurate and misleading content circulating in social media regarding ‘non-existent polling stations’ allegedly used in the 2022 General Election.”
The photo that stirred emotions on social media on Friday After NTV run the ghost school story was beginning to raise questions forcing Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to address them.
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In the 2022 General Election, Ruto received 175,170 votes in Baringo County, indicating 80.69 percent of the total making Azimio affiliated social media users to raise questions through the photo that had gone viral.